Justice committee  First of all, I forgot to introduce my colleague here, who I'm pretty sure you all know. Mr. Dave Griffin is the executive officer of the Canadian Police Association. By the way, he was a Breathalyzer technician, so he knows a little bit more about everything that is involved a

Justice committee  It's always a pleasure.

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. The Canadian Police Association welcomes the opportunity to appear today before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights concerning your comprehensive review of matters related to impaired driving. The CPA is the natio

Bill C-27 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  This is the reason why I am telling you that...

Bill C-27 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Madam Freeman, yes, I believe that there are means to help these people, and that is the reason why the Canadian Police Association has asked for a review of the Canadian correctional system. It is precisely because we want to find tools and programs in order to try and save some

Bill C-27 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Some of them will be able to recover. As for the others, there will have to be...

Bill C-27 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Madam Freeman, I do not believe that these people are what we could call a target clientele. Those people who are incarcerated and who are dangerous criminals are not people who have committed three offences. These are people who have been imprisoned for three serious crimes. Thr

Bill C-27 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Madam, these are people who have committed crimes. These are people who, in general, are assessed and determined to be psychopaths and whose risk of reoffending is at 100%. These are the people that we want to keep behind bars. The principles of philosophical rights and of the

Bill C-27 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I know that you understand, but I wish to make this distinction. The principle for me, Madam Freeman, is that we must pay attention to the citizens, who are the victims.

Bill C-27 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes, I am not denying that. On the contrary, we believe that that is important. However, we must protect citizens against predators, serial killers, incorrigible repeat offenders. These people must be kept in prison and we must find ways to do this. This is one means of accomplis

Bill C-27 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  You talked about a slippery slope. The ones we're really targeting here—I'm trying to be careful with the words I use--are the dangerous offenders, the people who have been sentenced three times for violent crimes. We're not talking about shoplifters. I don't think it's a good th

Bill C-27 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Well, in these cases, with these people, you wouldn't have what happened with Clermont Bégin. He never went through any programs. He served his sentence and said, “Okay, bye-bye, I'm out.” Everybody says that this guy is going to repeat. You would have people go to those hearin

Bill C-27 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Our role is surveillance. There's not much done by us. We have to be very frank. It's normally Correctional Service Canada. That's part of their mandate. So sadly--and you'll probably hear this when we attend that committee--we'll explain what they do, actually, and what the res

Bill C-27 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  On the conditions, the judge will decide what he is going to add to those conditions, so we're okay with that.

Bill C-27 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  There are some cases I could suggest. There was the Brassard case and the Bégin case, and we could go on and on. I mentioned the Karla Homolka case also. When you're dealing with those people, you're talking about really dangerous offenders--violent. They are people who have comm